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Brighton Toy and Model Museum

Brighton Toy and Model Museum
Brighton Toy and Model Museum

Brighton Toy and Model Museum is an art museum in Brighton, United Kingdom.

About Brighton Toy and Model Museum

Brighton Toy and Model Museum (sometimes referred to as Brighton Toy Museum) is an independent toy museum situated in Brighton, East Sussex (registered charity no. 1001560). Founded in 1991, the museum holds over ten thousand toys and models, and occupies four thousand square feet of floor space within four of the early Victorian arches supporting the forecourt of Brighton railway station.

The model collection focuses on exhibition-grade engineered models, and large overhead radio-controlled aircraft (fixed-wing aircraft mostly by Denis Hefford, and helicopters by Gordon Bowd),

The toy collection focuses on commercially produced toys that would have been available in UK toyshops up until the 1950s and 1960s.

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1991

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Artworks shown from Brighton Toy and Model Museum are in the public domain; images via the open-access programs of their source collections. Spotted an error in this record? Tell us.